CHENNAI (TIP): Shriram EPC Ltd has bagged a $230 million contract for setting up a storm water and sewer system in Basra, Iraq. The Rs 1,150- crore order will be carried out through a joint […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain will press its European partners next week to amend the arms embargo on Syria to allow them to provide weapons to rebels fighting the regime, Europe minister David Lidington said on Thursday. […]
GUWAHATI (TIP): In order to increase the bilateral trade between the Northeast India and Myanmar, Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM) will open a representative office in Myanmar. Chairman & Managing director of the bank, T.C.A […]
ROME (TIP): The centre-right party of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will abstain in a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament on Thursday, a party official said, heightening the risk of a […]
BEIJING (TIP): “Thank you. I’m well. Don’t worry,” read the post on a Chinese social networking site. The brief comment, published in June, appeared to come from Ling Gu, the 23-year-old son of a highpowered […]
WELLINGTON (TIP): Ross Taylor made himself unavailable for New Zealand’s cricket tour to South Africa this month after being fired as national captain and replaced by Brendon McCullum. New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White […]
BARCELONA (TIP: Usain Bolt won the IAAF World Athlete of the Year award for the fourth time on Saturday over United States hurdler Aries Merritt and Kenyan runner David Rudisha. The Jamaican sprinter, who defended […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): India grimly hung on to an early lead to prevail 1-0 over Belgium to advance to the semifinals of the Champions Trophy at the State Hockey Centre on Thursday. The goal that settled […]
A suave gentleman, Gujral who was easy in every role, was passionately committed to friendship between India and Pakistan Inder Kumar Gujral was a rare breed of political persona who switched roles seamlessly from a […]
Palestine wins historic UN Assembly vote and Gets status of non-member observer state India votes for resolution; US, Israel oppose bid UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Palestine overwhelmingly won, November 30, a historic UN General Assembly vote […]
Former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral passes away at 92 Govt declares 7-day national mourning Prez, PM, top leaders express grief NEW DELHI (TIP): Former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, who headed a Congress-supported […]
U.S. can’t Squeeze China Out Of Myanmar’. That was the message that China sought to convey to President Barack Obama as he completed his eight-hour visit to Yangon (Rangoon) on November 19, 2012, during which […]
Afghanistan has both benefited and suffered from the decade-old international intervention. A vast and a diverse section of the Afghan population, nearly a generation of Afghans, have benefited in several ways – right from increased […]
As the Sikhs across the world get ready to celebrate the 543rd birth anniversary of their First Master Guru Nanak Dev Ji, it is pertinent to ask if the Great Master’s message is kept in […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday easily survived a noconfidence vote orchestrated by her opponents in parliament who accused her of failing to crack down on graft. Yingluck, Thailand’s first female premier, […]
DALLAS: MoneyGram (NYSE: MGI), a leading global money transfer company launched November 15 an integrated, multi-platform advertising and marketing campaign for the holiday season. MoneyGram’s “Bringing You Closer” campaign is designed to build consumer preference […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): India-born Vishakha Desai, a leading expert on Asian art, has been appointed by the Obama administration as member of the National Museum and Library Services Board, a key administrative post. The name of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A full-time engineering professor at Morgan State University was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday, November 14 in an alleged scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation of hundreds of thousands of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Emerging clarity on the role of Sukhdev Singh Namdhari in the Ponty Chadha shootout case has made investigators reassess their theory regarding the trigger for the fatal gunfight. While the south district […]
JAMMU (TIP): Five days after Lashkar-e-Taiba activist Amir Ajmal Kasab was hanged for his role in the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008, a person claiming to be a Lashkar activist sent an e-mail […]
When Nanak was a boy of seven, he was sent to Gopal Pandha to learn Hindi. The teacher told Nanak to read a book. Nanak replied, “What will it avail to know all and not […]
Two senior journalists of Zee news channel were arrested in New Delhi on Tuesday on charges of trying to extort Rs. 100 crore from Congress MP Naveen Jindal’s group for not doing news reports on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): There is nothing wrong in bringing the Prime Minister under the jurisdiction of Lokpal as like others he is also a public servant, former Supreme Court judge and erstwhile Karnataka Lokayukta N […]
AHMEDABAD (TIP): The Gujarat Congress has shot itself in the foot over its desperation to portray the Narendra Modi-led BJP government in the state in bad light: this time through its own election advertisement. The […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With the DMK stating it would vote with the ruling combine on its policy allowing 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail, a confident UPA government maintained it is prepared for a […]
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